Sharing as Risk Pooling in a Social Dilemma Experiment
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- Todd L. Cherry & E. Lance Howe & James J. Murphy, 2015. "Sharing as Risk Pooling in a Social Dilemma Experiment," Working Papers 15-03, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
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Keywords
lab experiment; public goods; risk; shock; sharing; experimental economics; environmental economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2012-04-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2012-04-23 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2012-04-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2012-04-23 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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